JANUARY 13 1921
THE LONDON-CONTINENTAL SERVICES
FLIGHTS BETWEEN JANUARY 2 AND JANUARY 8, INCLUSIVE
RouteJ
Croydon-Paris ...
Paris-Croydon ...
Cricklewood-Paris
Paris-Cricklewood
Cryodon-Brussels
Brussels-Croydon
Cricklewood-Brussels ...
Brussels-Cricklewood ...
Totals for week
No
. o
f flights
*
6
5
1
1
2 •
2
1
2
20
No
. o
f passenger
s
6
46
I
No. of
flights
carrying
Mail
s
1
4
1
1
I
2
2
12
Good
s
4
5
1
1
1
2
I
2
*7
No
. o
f journey
s
completed
!
5
4
1
0
2
2
1
0
15
Averag
e flyin
g
tim
e
h. m.
2 29
2 3
3 22
2 5
?
2 19
Fastest time made by
Spad F-CMAV(ih. 52m.) :..
Spad F-CMAY(2h. 15m.) ...
H.P. G-EATK(3h. 22 m.) ...
Airco 4 O-BABI (2b.. om.) ...
Airco 9 G-EAUC (2b. 19m.)
!
Type and No. (in brackets)of Machines Flying
.•• ..;..••;• -">•••-,;.• »• :-•• , '"*..."' •• '•
B. (2), G. (1), Sp. (2), V. (i).
B. (2), G. (1), Sp. (1). V. (1).
HP.(1). ;. -v .;•.- .
H.P. (1) ...
A.4(2). - • •.:.:•••:•-. ;
A.4(2). . - -.-.. ..• - -
A.9(i)- ' - -
A.4(I),A.9(I). _,.;;;
• Not including " private" flights. t Including certain journeys when stops were made en route.
X Including certain diverted journeys.
A.4 = Airco4- A.9 = Airco9 (etc.). Av. = Avro. B. = Breguet. Br. = Bristol. Bt. = B.A.T.
F. = Fokker. Fa. = Farman F.50. G. = Goliath Farman. H.P. = Handley Page. N. = Nieuport. P. •= Potez.
Sa. = Salmson. Se. = S.E.5. Sp. = Spad. V. = Vickers Vimy. W. = Westland.
The following is a list of firms running services between London and Paris, Brussels, etc., etc. :—Air Post of Banks;
Co. des Grandes Expresses Aeriennes; Handley Page Transport, Ltd.; Instone Air Line; Koninklijkie Luchtvaart
Maatschappij; Messageries Aeiiennes ; Syndicat National pour l'fitude des Transports A£riens ; Co. Transaerienne.
THE AE.C.F. GRAND PRIX
IT has been decided by the Aero Club of France that
the new cup and the prize of 200,000 francs offered to the
Club by Mme. Deutsch, de la Meurthe, in memory of her
husband, the late M. Henry Deutsch, de la Meurthe, shall be
devoted to a competition for commercial machines built in
Frauce and owned by French concerns. It will be termed
the Grand Prix de l'Aero Club d_e France, and the regulations
have just been issued. The first prize will be 100,000 francs,
and the winner will also receive a gold medal, while the second
will receive a silver-gilt medal and the third a silver medal.
The classification will be according to the " commercial
speed " of the machine over the complete course, but this
must not be below 50 kiloms. an hour. The start will be
made from Bourget, then on to Ponchin (Lille), turning
above the aerodrome at a height not exceeding 200 metres,
back to Bourget, where a landing must be made, then on to
Pontlong (Pau) for another landing, back to Bourgct, land
again, then to Frescaty (Metz), turning above the aerodrome
and back to Bourget for the final landing. Each competing
machine must carry a load made up of (1) six sacks of sand,
each weighing 80 kiktgs., representing six passengers and
each placed in the position in the cabin (which must be at
least 1.4 metre high and 0.6 metre wide) which would
be occupied by the corresponding passenger, and (2) 200 kilogs.
of merchandise arranged in a space of at least half a cubic
metre. The sand and the merchandise will be officially sealed.
Nine days will be devoted to the competition, arranged
in three periods of three consecutive days. These have been
arranged as follows : February 20, 21, and 22, March 20, 21
and 22, April 20, 21 and 22. The machines must be at the
starting-place on the evening preceding the start and entries
must be made to the Aero Club of France eight days before
the start of each test.
LILLE
M6TZ
So too iso
Kilometers
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A Novel Test on a de H.4.
A NOVEL experiment was recently carried out at the
U.S. Aviation station in the Hawaii Islands. With a view
to finding out how long a de H. 4 would float if it was forced
down on the water, an old machine had the water and petrol
tanks filled, and with sacks of sand, to represent pilot and ob-
server, in the seats, it was set afloat. In the first forty-five
minutes the machine sank so rapidly that but half the fuselage,
part of the upper wing and the tail surfaces remained above
the water. From then on it sank very slowly and, at the end
of 2 i hours, over half the stabiliser and all the rudder were
still exposed. At the end of four hours the machine drifted
ashore with the rudder still above water. *
The Frankfort-Basle Service
FOR several weeks the air service between Frankfort
arid Basle has been maintained under difficulties, as the
Entente Powers have refused to allow the machines to leave
Germany. Under these circumstances the machines have had
to land at Lorrach quite close to the Swiss frontier.
Vienna as Aerial Interchange Station
FROM a message to hand from Vienna it -appears that
the Austrian capital has aspirations to become the aerial
" Clapham Junction " of Europe. As a result of a conference
between the Mayor and the Inter-Allied Commission of
Control, a commission has been appointed to consider the
" creation of a big international base for air travel." ,.